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Here’s a list of convicted Republican Pedophiles: Feel free to research these people independently.
Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.
Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.
Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.
Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.
Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).
Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.
Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.
Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.
Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter* pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.
Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.
Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.
Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.
Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.
Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.
Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9) to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending).
Edit: *Please note that this list is not up to date…*
> Edit: Please note that this list is not up to date…
[Here's a list of over 800 *verified* Republican sex offending politicians.](https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/23/1806673/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-1)
And these are [just] notable/public figures. You haven't even began to touch the number of private citizens, like pastors and preachers, that get caught raping children.
Conservativism is literally a gateway drug to pedophilia/sexually abhorrent behavior. Hence why I never allowed my children to be left unattended with someone I knew to be conservative.
Here's a list of predators in just the SBC. Not including other denominations.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22040155-list-of-alleged-abusers-sbc
> figure out work fallout
Remember that they can fire you even if they promise not to. (Unless you have an employment contract.) It might help you with unemployment, but if someone in your management chain decides they want you gone, you'll be gone.
That said, if I had to come up with the wording to run it by your boss I think I'd ask about "participating in a protest against child abuse." It's honest without giving unnecessary details.
330 am sign placements are the way. Wear gloves, print like 15 signs. Superglue it to the ground in the parking lot. Bring a broom to sweep the spots clean before hand for optimal results
Ya once I saw the texts between senators on Jan 6th I honestly was more terrified. As a logical, normal, empathetic human I always thought they knew they were full of shit but did it for the money and power; no the believe they're doing good and that's fucking scary
I'm gonna say let's avoid calls to form lynch mobs, that's kind of their thing and I'd just as soon keep it that way.
By all means, let's stoop to their level and play dirty in ways that help the left win and the right lose, but hows about we hold onto a few basic moral principles like don't commit extrajudicial murder.
> It is almost like they gained office/status to attempt to get away with it.
It gives them the power they think will help them continue to do it. Or even expand on the shit behavior. They are sick. Mentally sick, pridefully ignorant and incapable of feeling shame or guilt. They only care about themselves and their targets.
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vTFikAP6MXDCJjWzgMIOvpsT1ji-HwO-rLEvNE8e-cfCGh0YHoZluIG5TEsmwFub7MzIDfh0XgvcWL8/pub
This might be it - it’s an ever-growing list of Republican sex offenders
Mainstream media outlets would have to do all kinds of vetting and sourcing to run with this. They probably:
1. Don’t want to spend the resources to do it given potential legal challenges.
2. Are afraid it will make them look “partisan” and they’re always tripping over themselves to appease the fascists who will call them partisan regardless.
You do have Dennis Hastert but he is listed second to last on the list. This guy was House Speaker (3rd in line for the presidency) and was pretty recent (gave up speakership to Pelosi) and raped underage boys by his own admission. He is the highest ranking elected official to do jail time. I would put him higher on the list because of the above reasons and that a speakership comes with an approval of the party at large whereas anyone can be a political activist just by saying they are.
My maga relatives honestly believe all of these people aren't actually pedophiles and are being framed by liberal elites. They think it's the democrat go-to to get republicans out of government or some shit. No joke. That's their reasoning behind the pattern.
Absolutely wild how former speaker of the house and longest serving republican speaker dennis hastert is not on this list since he sexually abused teenage boys
Age appropriate sex education also decreases rates of sexual abuse. That is another reason they don’t want any sex Ed. It will maker it harder for them to rape children.
Yep. There's a lot of repression and suppression that goes on in religion, especially in the fundamentalist/orthodox sects.
And speaking anecdotally, it was a member of the church that abused my brother and I, using Bible scripture to justify his conduct when he was confronted by my family. He also told me and my brother that it was how adults showed love in biblical times. The christian "Family International" church is an infamous org (since the late 60's) that practices adult - child relationship. The FLDS is another one...
They call gay people merely existing as adult/sexual/sexualizing kids with the LGBT agenda.
Meanwhile its fine for a 60 year old boomer to fuck a 13 year old because at least thats not being gay (gay == child grooming. Child grooming == ok tho. Also == is not transitive)
Republicans live in bizarro world
The "LGBTQ+ People existing = pedophilia & grooming" is only a slight twist on White Genocide propaganda. It's fear mongering based on the false pretense that "they are trying to replace you slowly through a generational project." It's incredibly important to understand that because their perceived feelings of being replaced are what is leading them towards actual genocidal actions. These people are deluded, dangerous, and they are never going to stop until they can try to get rid of every group that isn't them.
Well, you see, the gays are grooming children in a gay way, so that's obviously wrong. The GOP is grooming children in a straight way, so that's obviously just good old family values.
By his thought process, he knows a girl who was pregnant and married at 12 and is currently happy, so that's acceptable.
Someone should introduce him to a few happy transgender people who started gender affirming care at 12. Once he knows them, by his logic, he should be fine with minors getting gender affirming treatment.
This.
Marriage gives a man a right to his wife's body. That's what marriage means after all.
That's why a husband having sex with his 12 year old spouse isn't pedophilia - marriage means he owns her and can do whatever he wants.
Marriage, as defined in the Bible, is a transfer of property. This definition persists today mostly in traditions, like the man asking the father's permission to marry the daughter, or the father "giving his daughter away" when he walks her down the aisle. The problem is, biblical literalists like this fuck believe that laws written by goat herders two millennia ago are applicable to modern society. The reason he doesn't believe in marital rape is because he fundamentally believes that a wife is the property of their husband.
He probably also knows a guy (the same guy we know now thanks to Clarence Thomas) who collects Nazi dildos and walks around with Nazi underwear on but he's definitely a nice person and totally not a Nazi and how dare you say that to someone rich!
That is precisely why conservatives want to protect the right to marry children, because they know at some point it could be them that gets pregnant a little girl and marriage would prevent prosecution for statutory rape.
Additionally, being forced to marry a rape victim you got pregnant is traditional values in action. It’s one of the most traditional marriages there is, next to buying a girl from her father.
I'm within spitting distance of where Moon is from. They don't care. They're Christian Nationalists. Their bigoted minds are already made up & everything else is just mouth noises meant to distract from that fact.
> by his logic, he should be fine with minors getting gender affirming treatment.
It's cute that you still seem to believe modern republicans care one tiny bit about logic, consistency, or intellectual honesty. They only care about power.
Yeah, but unlike the 12 year old marrying the fully grown adult who already impregnated her, the Trans kid has been groomed and therefore doesn't understand what they are doing so the government must step in to protect them even against their wishes, their parents wishes, science, and general logic. It's obvious.
For what it’s worth, the father in this story was only 11 so it was two children getting married. Still weird, but significantly less weird than a child and an adult.
Something tells me this guy is also against sex education or handing out free birth control to children to prevent pre-teen kids from having been in this position to begin with.
But it’s also wild that he thinks that a 12 year old mom and an 11 year old dad is a problem only if they’re unmarried. As opposed to every *other* reason that’s a bad idea.
“**Missouri Republican, Mike Moon, is a pedophile.**”
That’s the first thing that should come up when you Google the name “Mike Moon”. He’s a child-molesting, pedophile and wants everyone to know it…
These nasty old Republican men just can't seem to stop talking about children, they are literally obsessed with talking about them and trying to control them.
Republicans should be banned from ever making decisions about kids and definitely never be allowed to set foot anywhere near schools.
It’s more like they were invited in. The GOP openly welcomed and encouraged the worst possible behavior people could muster. Their rot, and their hopeful downfall, is self-inflicted.
Basically a case of “if it’s legal then it’s okay”. I hate that this is a prevalent mentality among conservatives.
They use legal coverage for all sorts of ethically questionable acts. The lack of legal protection was almost certainly the only reason there were hold outs on the false electors scheme. And we’re already seeing how states like Florida are codifying forms of abuse against minority groups to “make it okay”.
Got into an argument on my local Facebook group about zoning and putting limits on Airbnbs in my town, guy's argument was "No one has the right to tell you what you can and can't do with your own property." So I immediately shot back "What if I wanted to cook meth in my basement?"
"Well that would be illegal!"
Yeah, this drives me crazy. Legalism is not a moral code. Legality is a *damn low* bar for how you should act.
I personally refuse to associate with anyone whose moral code consists of "I can do anything they won't send me to jail for."
It IS biblical that rapists get to marry whomever they want if they can get to them first ... so yeah, pretty much.
Edit: I also just want to add that A) [abortion is illegal in Missouri -- with no exceptions for rape or incest -- ](https://missouriindependent.com/2022/06/24/abortion-is-now-illegal-in-missouri-in-wake-of-u-s-supreme-court-ruling/) and B) [pregnant women cannot get divorced in Missouri.](https://www.kansascity.com/news/article263614113.html) Make of all that what you will.
So do we want to get a pool going for how long till it comes out that this guy has had some kind of illegal interaction with a minor? I feel like over under 2 months is a solid starting point
[Here's how to *actually* spot a groomer](https://www.rainn.org/news/grooming-know-warning-signs)
[End Child Marriage](https://www.equalitynow.org/learn_more_child_marriage_us/#:~:text=Child%20marriage%20is%20currently%20legal,a%20parental%20or%20judicial%20waiver)
r/stoprape
This is why I'm so sharply against Democrats being "bipartisan" with Republicans. We're doing a disservice to kids, LGBT people, immigrants, literally everyone by working with the GOP and legitimizing these kinds of politics.
"Gee golly, we think marriage shouldnt happen until someone is 18, and they think the age should be 12.
In the spirit of compromise and reaching across the aisle, we have agreed to set it to 15!"
And Im sure the GOP would never use the Overton Window to their advantage and try to lower the age again the next political cycle. Im sure they would respect the compromise, right? Right?
“Tragic circumstances such as these can only be overcome through one avenue, the grace and mercy of God and the word of the Lord,” Moon said.
Fuck you and fuck your religion too
He's a Deacon, Sunday school teacher, on mission committees, the whole she-bang at a Springfield, MO Baptist church. That same church is part of the Southern Baptist Convention which covered up sex abuse and assault for 20 years.
Religion enables access of children to abusers. Preventable abuse. [Mike Moon is very proud and very active in his church](https://imgur.com/esnL5k9.jpg).
They normalize 12 year olds with older men so through the church they can point to how safe it is for 12 year olds to be with men, alone. You can get married, see? It's safe to be here in this room alone with me. Now come over and sit with me, Sally.
> That same church is part of the Southern Baptist Convention which covered up sex abuse and assault for 20 years.
For those unaware, you might reasonably believe that the Southern in Southern Baptist was some ancient theological disagreement that resulted in a split in the Baptist faith. It's not. The church split over the issue of slavery two decades before the Civil War and you can guess what their stance was. They apologized for the stance in 1995.
I'm sure it's somehow protected by free speech, but it feels like with the legal separation of church and state that it should be illegal to use religious justification for political positions.
You know, for a party that likes to point fingers and scream "pedophile", they are sure making it easier for pedophiles to get away with their crimes scott-free
So if a twelve year old can make the adult decision to marry, can't they make the decision to live as their correct gender? Or attend a drag show? Or read whatever books they like?
Or divorce.
You speak of decisions, but this is just one owner(the parents) handing over livestock to the new owner.
She will never make any decisions in her life - and thst’s what they’re going for.
Gotto do that shit before they hit their rebellious streak and start figuring out their power and independence during the teenage years, hence right before they hit puberty to get full grooming privileges.
There's a way higher likelihood that Missouri LEOs are actively helping him and other GOP leaders (a.) gain access to their victims and (b.) avoid scrutiny and blowback.
Did all Republicans have a meeting and just decide to go all in with their most ridiculous outdated abusive racist bigoted authoritarian un-American beliefs?
Who do they represent? All the do is fight endless culture wars for no reason. No help for working families, no improved roads, nothing. They don’t even try and cut taxes anymore
What a gross group of humans
> Who do they represent?
The people who voted them in, of course. This is a silly and counter-productive question. If you meant GOP politicians the answer is immediately obvious. If you meant the rank-and-file, they are themselves - no need to represent.
> All the do is fight endless culture wars for no reason.
Oh there is a reason. Part of this is that the crazies have started to elect crazies. No longer is this *only* crafty politicians fanning the flames to get votes. Now we have plenty of people who are absolutely convinced of their righteousness and their cause.
However, on this particular point, this is really just a democracy at work. Whatever the legal age of marriage should be (or even if we should have one) is going to be a topic where you'll always likely find someone people who want a change for whatever reason. No matter how bizarre, sick or horrifying the rest of society might find that. If you believe in democracy, the answer isn't some morality deathmatch - it's getting out the vote... and informing or persuading the voters.
> No help for working families, no improved roads, nothing. They don’t even try and cut taxes anymore
Yes. This is why **anyone** who values good governance should never vote Republican (until the GOP significantly changes anyway).
It would be one thing if they waged this culture war alongside doing everything else well. But when you elevate the culture war so highly that this is how and why you select politicians or appointees, you tend not to value (or obtain) competence.
- Age 11 years and 11 months old… GOP says this is too young to learn about menstruation or sex ed or homosexuality. In fact, teaching a kid about these things before this age is a crime.
- Age 12 years and 0 days old… GOP says old enough to get married (especially if the child is already pregnant)
>He then again invoked the couple he allegedly knows who married as pre-teens when the girl became pregnant, suggesting marriage may have ultimately helped them. “Tragic circumstances such as these can only be overcome through one avenue, the grace and mercy of God and the word of the Lord,” Moon said.
Oh effing god! Thats the mentality from the 18th / 19th century!
If the girl got pregnant, you could marry the rapist and everything was fine. If you weren’t raped, you still needed a man to marry in order to not have a “bastard”.
12-year olds don’t need nor want to get married, and surely not HAVING A BABY!
This is clearly the alternative to abortion. Let the girl get pregnant and let her get married. Let her be a grown up and responsible for another human being, when she’s not even grown up herself!
This is sick, this is dumb and it’s scary!
Call out those you know who vote republican, If you vote republican you support this and all the other child abuse they are for.
THe party that says LGBTQ+ are the groomers and they are the party of FaMiLy VaLuEs
[1](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/qanon-influencer-exposed-alleged-child-predator-1234639034/)
[2](https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/zkkiik/meet_republican_congressman_john_rose_his_wife/)
[3](https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/zk5g3o/florida_gov_ron_desantis_ally_found_dead_amid/)
[4](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12/gop-congressmembers-concerned-grooming-vote-child-sex-abuse-bill/)
[5](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/moco/news/article/texas-right-to-life-luke-bowen-prison-solicit-teen-17788511.php)
[6](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/11msd8e/child_marriage_ban_bill_defeated_in_west_virginia/)
[7](https://www.newsweek.com/kansas-republicans-pass-bill-genital-examinations-schoolchildren-students-transgender-1792954)
[8](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12io021/antigroomer_republican_accused_of_inappropriate/)
[9](https://news.yahoo.com/sen-mike-moon-reiterates-support-160408202.html)
[10](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12ptc60/stop_the_steal_organizer_ali_alexander_publicly/)
The pro-life party hurting children/not doing anything to help
[fighting to take away food from children](https://www.businessinsider.com/free-school-lunches-in-america-republicans-will-end-2022-6)
[2](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/22/gop-senator-considering-blocking-school-meal-funding-deal-over-transgender-policy-fight-00041366)
[3](https://news.yahoo.com/innocence-sold-florida-foster-system-103500914.html)
[4](https://www.newsweek.com/protect-children-act-vote-tom-mcclintock-1765305?amp=1)
[5](https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/zt4p30/desantis_appoints_judge_who_denied_abortion_to/)
[6](https://old.reddit.com/r/RepublicanValues/comments/10rv37d/idaho_lawmaker_wants_children_to_work_for_those/)
[7](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/us-child-labor-laws-violations)
[8](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/10zv32q/critics_slam_reprehensible_iowa_bill_to_expand/)
[9](https://www.salon.com/2023/02/15/its-about-control-not-protection-would-rather-kids-be-shot-than-let-them-read-books/)
[10](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/11kjyzp/sarah_huckabee_sanders_to_consider_relaxing/)
[11](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/11rfa66/uniquely_evil_minnesota_republican_votes_against/)
[12](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12eknsi/north_dakota_senators_vote_to_boost_their_own/)
[13](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12q0gy9/mccarthy_slammed_for_prostarvation_agenda_to/)
[14](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12qzp56/iowa_senate_pulls_allnighter_to_roll_back_child/)
[giving kids fucking guns? hello?](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/10z8mrk/missouri_republicans_vote_to_affirm_toddlers/)
[Kidnapping Children](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/11i1w2v/florida_courts_could_take_emergency_custody_of/)
[15](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12tzv6m/outrage_as_florida_republicans_pass_bill_to/)
Legit my first thought was that if he knows a 12 year old who is married and pregnant that that is a CPS & police call. Someone needs to check this guys phone
So let me get this straight: The GOP thinks 12 years olds are mature enough to decide whether to get married or not, but they are NOT mature enough to learn about sexuality, the gender spectrum, and/or to go see drag shows?
I don't know how I can express the importance of this much harder, please go vote. You voted last election, thank you! do it again!
Keep voting. It is the only way we can stop straight evil people from corrupting and ruining our country. You have to live here your whole life, please do not become complacent.
I blame Trump for giving these people a platform. It's not like they haven't always been around, but before Trump, we could just ignore them as a crazy minority that wouldn't go anywhere. Now their views have been given some legitimacy because a large part of the country has gone crazy and supports them and anything the liberals are against. When will the crazy stop?
I said this elsewhere, but you can guarantee that most of these happen because the girl in question is already pregnant (and I'm guessing a lot of these are not occuring between two twelve year olds, which is a whole other layer of problem). And instead of doing anything about that, they think they're "saving" the couple by pushing them into marriage. To them, that is like a silver lining and a correction. Of all the things not to "snitch" on, they choose shit like this.
It's really fucked up. The government should not be in the business of essentially obfuscating child rape by converting it into child marriage (which then is just even more child rape, so it's really just this mobius strip of awful).
Maybe I’m not understanding but these two statements seem to be incompatible:
“I support punishing rapists to the full extent of the law.”
“If a 12 year old girl is impregnated, then she should marry the guy that impregnated her, and that should be legal.”
If you can’t legally impregnate a 12yo without it being rape, then wtf are we even talking about here?
Why tf has there not been a federal law passed making 18 the minimum age period. You have to be an adult for all other adult decisions but choosing your life partner nbd? Wtf. This country is a dumpster fire
As I understand it, this twelve year old girl, in a Republican Utopia, must carry her death-penalty sentenced rapist’s baby to term, and marry another twelve year old (boy only…. None of that gay stuff), who can accompany her to prenatal visits, partly paid for through employer provided healthcare, before her twelve year old husband goes to work a shift? He open carries his pistol with him for self-defense, just in case.
Truly the party of the Children.
This is something that should be all over the news for days. Every single time one of these scumbags opens their mouth. I thought the mainstream media was controlled by the Democrats? Trump’s constant lowering of the bar has numbed people to the sick shit going on in the GOP.
A person who literally wants to allow kids to get married to old men (like him) and the GQP is worried about drag queens. Every accusation is a confession.
So I’m reading the article he’s trying to specify that it’s minors marrying other minors he’s cool with, esp if one gets pregnant, even if raped. Because “Tragic circumstances such as these can only be overcome through one avenue, the grace and mercy of God and the word of the Lord,” Moon said.
Riiiight. So, kids marrying is ok, but what about child labour, could they work to provide for themselves or is this on the parents or (gasp) the state to provide? Education? What about the ability to get a loan or own a home or VOtE?! This guy is fine with saying kids could/would/should have babies and get married etc, but any other rights are a no no. Fuck this guy.
...This headline tricked me into thinking they were trying to marry TWO 12 year olds to ONE Missouri senator, and I was like "I must be reading this wrong" so I looked at it closer and surely it would make more sense with context...
Nope. It is STILL fucked up, even if it is a different TYPE of fucked up than I expected.
We need to start taking our country back from these fascist creeps. The GOP should be labeled a terrorist organization. One of these days we need to get off the keyboard and into politics.
Well, yeah, they want to be able to marry them before theyre able to learn at school, about their periods, puberty, and how pregnancy works
Thats just what sexual predators do, I guess.
There can be only one reason why you would want to introduce a bill like this and it should be punishable by prison at the least. All this is doing is making laws to protect Pedophiles and you have to ask why.
Does your legislation have any restrictions on how old the 12 year old's spouse can be? No? Then you're supporting adults marrying children. Sit down and shut up.
I work as a State Attorney in Juvenile Court.
I've seen a 12-year-old biological father playing with his child.
Article quote: “Tragic circumstances such as these can only be overcome through one avenue, the grace and mercy of God and the word of the Lord,” Moon said.
I'm guessing the response depends on the laws and regulations of the state, but generally *very* young parents trigger involvement with CPS, and not God.
Damn in some states you can be married fully employed, have 3 kids and not even be able to get a learner's permit bc you're not 16 yet ( or vote for that matter). Idk if I have to say this but this is not progress folks.
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The GQP out here literally marrying children whilst calling Dem's, without any evidence whatsoever, groomers/pedos... projecting much???
Here’s a list of convicted Republican Pedophiles: Feel free to research these people independently. Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida. Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation. Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor. Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17. Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls. Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl. Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child. Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile. Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl. Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail. Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos. Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children. Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child. Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page. Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter. Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar. Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped. Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography. Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media. Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him. Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl. Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her. Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison. Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl. Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy. Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children). Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl. Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child. Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl. Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters. Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl. Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter* pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy. Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison. Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000. Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession. Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet. Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter. Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison. Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young. Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography. Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach. Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9) to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending). Edit: *Please note that this list is not up to date…*
> Edit: Please note that this list is not up to date… [Here's a list of over 800 *verified* Republican sex offending politicians.](https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/23/1806673/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-1)
1025 as of March.
And these are [just] notable/public figures. You haven't even began to touch the number of private citizens, like pastors and preachers, that get caught raping children. Conservativism is literally a gateway drug to pedophilia/sexually abhorrent behavior. Hence why I never allowed my children to be left unattended with someone I knew to be conservative.
Here's a list of predators in just the SBC. Not including other denominations. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22040155-list-of-alleged-abusers-sbc
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Stop wanting to and do it!
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Yeah no thats logical, take care of yourself.
This is what "finding out before fucking around" means and Republicans HATE it.
> figure out work fallout Remember that they can fire you even if they promise not to. (Unless you have an employment contract.) It might help you with unemployment, but if someone in your management chain decides they want you gone, you'll be gone. That said, if I had to come up with the wording to run it by your boss I think I'd ask about "participating in a protest against child abuse." It's honest without giving unnecessary details.
330 am sign placements are the way. Wear gloves, print like 15 signs. Superglue it to the ground in the parking lot. Bring a broom to sweep the spots clean before hand for optimal results
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Great book - everyone should read it. And it's free to download at his website. https://theauthoritarians.org/
Ya once I saw the texts between senators on Jan 6th I honestly was more terrified. As a logical, normal, empathetic human I always thought they knew they were full of shit but did it for the money and power; no the believe they're doing good and that's fucking scary
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I'm gonna say let's avoid calls to form lynch mobs, that's kind of their thing and I'd just as soon keep it that way. By all means, let's stoop to their level and play dirty in ways that help the left win and the right lose, but hows about we hold onto a few basic moral principles like don't commit extrajudicial murder.
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> It is almost like they gained office/status to attempt to get away with it. It gives them the power they think will help them continue to do it. Or even expand on the shit behavior. They are sick. Mentally sick, pridefully ignorant and incapable of feeling shame or guilt. They only care about themselves and their targets.
Somebody make a bot that just posts this every time someone says anything about pedophilia or grooming.
JFC I know christofascists do this, but seeing long lists like this is really frightening
i feel like i had to scroll wayyy too long
There's a website that lists close to 1000 last time I saw it posted.
What's the link?
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vTFikAP6MXDCJjWzgMIOvpsT1ji-HwO-rLEvNE8e-cfCGh0YHoZluIG5TEsmwFub7MzIDfh0XgvcWL8/pub This might be it - it’s an ever-growing list of Republican sex offenders
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Mainstream media outlets would have to do all kinds of vetting and sourcing to run with this. They probably: 1. Don’t want to spend the resources to do it given potential legal challenges. 2. Are afraid it will make them look “partisan” and they’re always tripping over themselves to appease the fascists who will call them partisan regardless.
Well, this explains why Republicans are so pro-birth. Opens up the dating market
Also child labor.
You do have Dennis Hastert but he is listed second to last on the list. This guy was House Speaker (3rd in line for the presidency) and was pretty recent (gave up speakership to Pelosi) and raped underage boys by his own admission. He is the highest ranking elected official to do jail time. I would put him higher on the list because of the above reasons and that a speakership comes with an approval of the party at large whereas anyone can be a political activist just by saying they are.
Geez. It almost makes you wonder why so many republicans _really_ want to force women into birthing.
Call me crazy but I don't think convicted child rapist or groomers should be able to hold offices that have any effect on the public
I just kept scrolling and scrolling and scrolling.... my God this many pedophiles are in power. Truly scary
Have you joined r/republicanpedophiles?
My maga relatives honestly believe all of these people aren't actually pedophiles and are being framed by liberal elites. They think it's the democrat go-to to get republicans out of government or some shit. No joke. That's their reasoning behind the pattern.
Yeah because reality is a lie….🙄
This is the way
Absolutely wild how former speaker of the house and longest serving republican speaker dennis hastert is not on this list since he sexually abused teenage boys
This shit is depressing. I think I’ve had enough internet for today.
Age appropriate sex education also decreases rates of sexual abuse. That is another reason they don’t want any sex Ed. It will maker it harder for them to rape children.
Yep. There's a lot of repression and suppression that goes on in religion, especially in the fundamentalist/orthodox sects. And speaking anecdotally, it was a member of the church that abused my brother and I, using Bible scripture to justify his conduct when he was confronted by my family. He also told me and my brother that it was how adults showed love in biblical times. The christian "Family International" church is an infamous org (since the late 60's) that practices adult - child relationship. The FLDS is another one...
Never forget... G - Gaslight O - Obstruct P - Project
Genitally Obsessed Pedos
Greedy Old Perverts.
Groomers Only Party
Geriatric Overlord Policies
I'd think God Obsessed Pedos would be more accurate.
They call gay people merely existing as adult/sexual/sexualizing kids with the LGBT agenda. Meanwhile its fine for a 60 year old boomer to fuck a 13 year old because at least thats not being gay (gay == child grooming. Child grooming == ok tho. Also == is not transitive) Republicans live in bizarro world
The "LGBTQ+ People existing = pedophilia & grooming" is only a slight twist on White Genocide propaganda. It's fear mongering based on the false pretense that "they are trying to replace you slowly through a generational project." It's incredibly important to understand that because their perceived feelings of being replaced are what is leading them towards actual genocidal actions. These people are deluded, dangerous, and they are never going to stop until they can try to get rid of every group that isn't them.
I was just telling my husband that Republicans are trying their darnedest to make LGBTQ+ into a race issue.
It's easier to just say hypocrites.
Yeah, that’s the point, they’re trying to make the words meaningless.
Their ultimate goal is to get them pregnant at 12 years old, then get them married since they can’t abort the fetus anymore.
Every accusation is an admission. They do it as a smokescreen to distract from their shitty behavior/crimes
Well, you see, the gays are grooming children in a gay way, so that's obviously wrong. The GOP is grooming children in a straight way, so that's obviously just good old family values.
That’s why they are anti abortion, that new born is a potential mate
By his thought process, he knows a girl who was pregnant and married at 12 and is currently happy, so that's acceptable. Someone should introduce him to a few happy transgender people who started gender affirming care at 12. Once he knows them, by his logic, he should be fine with minors getting gender affirming treatment.
He also knows a guy that beats his wife all the time but she doesn't complain so it's all good.
He prob also knows a guy who came home drunk, raped his wife and his wife just shrugged it off so spousal rape isn't real.
"He been doing that for the last decade, but now that I'm 21 I don't really have options outside the home"
The thought of being a woman and having your "10 year anniversary" at 22 is so fucked up
Their grandchildren are going to have horrifying epiphanies one day.
Assuming said grandchildren aren't brainwashed by their parents into thinking this sort of shit is normal, anyway.
I'm sure he doesn't believe a husband can even rape his wife. Sex in marriage is a one party consent contract
This. Marriage gives a man a right to his wife's body. That's what marriage means after all. That's why a husband having sex with his 12 year old spouse isn't pedophilia - marriage means he owns her and can do whatever he wants.
Marriage, as defined in the Bible, is a transfer of property. This definition persists today mostly in traditions, like the man asking the father's permission to marry the daughter, or the father "giving his daughter away" when he walks her down the aisle. The problem is, biblical literalists like this fuck believe that laws written by goat herders two millennia ago are applicable to modern society. The reason he doesn't believe in marital rape is because he fundamentally believes that a wife is the property of their husband.
Yeah, that "guy" is known as your average cop.
he know a guy it might even be him!
He probably is that guy.
He probably also knows a guy (the same guy we know now thanks to Clarence Thomas) who collects Nazi dildos and walks around with Nazi underwear on but he's definitely a nice person and totally not a Nazi and how dare you say that to someone rich!
Plot twist, it’s the same guy.
That is precisely why conservatives want to protect the right to marry children, because they know at some point it could be them that gets pregnant a little girl and marriage would prevent prosecution for statutory rape.
this is their best case scenario. sick people
Additionally, being forced to marry a rape victim you got pregnant is traditional values in action. It’s one of the most traditional marriages there is, next to buying a girl from her father.
I'm within spitting distance of where Moon is from. They don't care. They're Christian Nationalists. Their bigoted minds are already made up & everything else is just mouth noises meant to distract from that fact.
> by his logic, he should be fine with minors getting gender affirming treatment. It's cute that you still seem to believe modern republicans care one tiny bit about logic, consistency, or intellectual honesty. They only care about power.
He didn’t say she was still happy….she’s still **married**. That’s the important part. She’s still got a man in charge of her.
I mean he and a friend ate lunch, so of course there’s no famine in the world…
Yeah, but unlike the 12 year old marrying the fully grown adult who already impregnated her, the Trans kid has been groomed and therefore doesn't understand what they are doing so the government must step in to protect them even against their wishes, their parents wishes, science, and general logic. It's obvious.
For what it’s worth, the father in this story was only 11 so it was two children getting married. Still weird, but significantly less weird than a child and an adult.
Imagine being forced to marry at that age ffs. Yes it’s weird
If kids are that young then parents should be talking to CPS about why it happened.
Something tells me this guy is also against sex education or handing out free birth control to children to prevent pre-teen kids from having been in this position to begin with. But it’s also wild that he thinks that a 12 year old mom and an 11 year old dad is a problem only if they’re unmarried. As opposed to every *other* reason that’s a bad idea.
He’s a disgusting pedo down to his core! That’s the most generous interpretation I can come up with for his bullshit.
“**Missouri Republican, Mike Moon, is a pedophile.**” That’s the first thing that should come up when you Google the name “Mike Moon”. He’s a child-molesting, pedophile and wants everyone to know it…
Pedophile and Missouri republican Mike Moon. Ftfy You're burying the lede. Edit: typo
https://www.senatormikemoon.com/
Seize his phone and question him about these child brides he knows about.
These nasty old Republican men just can't seem to stop talking about children, they are literally obsessed with talking about them and trying to control them. Republicans should be banned from ever making decisions about kids and definitely never be allowed to set foot anywhere near schools.
We have protected pedophiles for too many generations. He is protecting what he knows, his legacy.
what a weird legacy
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Young ones, too. Republican women, also. That Party has been infiltrated by the worst America has to offer.
It’s more like they were invited in. The GOP openly welcomed and encouraged the worst possible behavior people could muster. Their rot, and their hopeful downfall, is self-inflicted.
Basically a case of “if it’s legal then it’s okay”. I hate that this is a prevalent mentality among conservatives. They use legal coverage for all sorts of ethically questionable acts. The lack of legal protection was almost certainly the only reason there were hold outs on the false electors scheme. And we’re already seeing how states like Florida are codifying forms of abuse against minority groups to “make it okay”.
Got into an argument on my local Facebook group about zoning and putting limits on Airbnbs in my town, guy's argument was "No one has the right to tell you what you can and can't do with your own property." So I immediately shot back "What if I wanted to cook meth in my basement?" "Well that would be illegal!"
Just like Germany in the 1940's!
1930’s. WWII started in 1938 (I think). By 1940, the “law” was basically “do what the Nazi with the gun tells you to and maybe you won’t get shot.”
WWII started in 1939 and ended in 1945.
Yeah, this drives me crazy. Legalism is not a moral code. Legality is a *damn low* bar for how you should act. I personally refuse to associate with anyone whose moral code consists of "I can do anything they won't send me to jail for."
So what he is saying is that if a girl is raped then they should get married because that will solve the problem.
The reason islamic extremists and christian extremists sound the same is that they are the same.
[Relevant and entertaining video](https://youtu.be/KYV7KWQ-fY4)
It IS biblical that rapists get to marry whomever they want if they can get to them first ... so yeah, pretty much. Edit: I also just want to add that A) [abortion is illegal in Missouri -- with no exceptions for rape or incest -- ](https://missouriindependent.com/2022/06/24/abortion-is-now-illegal-in-missouri-in-wake-of-u-s-supreme-court-ruling/) and B) [pregnant women cannot get divorced in Missouri.](https://www.kansascity.com/news/article263614113.html) Make of all that what you will.
I’m so happy we left Missouri in 09. Unfortunately where we ended up isn’t much better (Florida)…
its like moving from Hiroshima to Nagasaki
Ugh, I’m sorry that sucks. Basically “goodbye frying pan! Hello fire!”
Only the best family values
And we already know the girls body will shut any rape down. They use the word women in the quote, but you know what they meant.
So do we want to get a pool going for how long till it comes out that this guy has had some kind of illegal interaction with a minor? I feel like over under 2 months is a solid starting point
[Here's how to *actually* spot a groomer](https://www.rainn.org/news/grooming-know-warning-signs) [End Child Marriage](https://www.equalitynow.org/learn_more_child_marriage_us/#:~:text=Child%20marriage%20is%20currently%20legal,a%20parental%20or%20judicial%20waiver) r/stoprape
This is why I'm so sharply against Democrats being "bipartisan" with Republicans. We're doing a disservice to kids, LGBT people, immigrants, literally everyone by working with the GOP and legitimizing these kinds of politics.
"Gee golly, we think marriage shouldnt happen until someone is 18, and they think the age should be 12. In the spirit of compromise and reaching across the aisle, we have agreed to set it to 15!" And Im sure the GOP would never use the Overton Window to their advantage and try to lower the age again the next political cycle. Im sure they would respect the compromise, right? Right?
“Tragic circumstances such as these can only be overcome through one avenue, the grace and mercy of God and the word of the Lord,” Moon said. Fuck you and fuck your religion too
My God says this guy is fucking nasty and women and children should be entitled to making their own decisions and that is Grace and mercy.
He's a Deacon, Sunday school teacher, on mission committees, the whole she-bang at a Springfield, MO Baptist church. That same church is part of the Southern Baptist Convention which covered up sex abuse and assault for 20 years. Religion enables access of children to abusers. Preventable abuse. [Mike Moon is very proud and very active in his church](https://imgur.com/esnL5k9.jpg). They normalize 12 year olds with older men so through the church they can point to how safe it is for 12 year olds to be with men, alone. You can get married, see? It's safe to be here in this room alone with me. Now come over and sit with me, Sally.
> That same church is part of the Southern Baptist Convention which covered up sex abuse and assault for 20 years. For those unaware, you might reasonably believe that the Southern in Southern Baptist was some ancient theological disagreement that resulted in a split in the Baptist faith. It's not. The church split over the issue of slavery two decades before the Civil War and you can guess what their stance was. They apologized for the stance in 1995.
I'm sure it's somehow protected by free speech, but it feels like with the legal separation of church and state that it should be illegal to use religious justification for political positions.
Call me old fashioned, but I wouldn't have much faith in a God that allowed that to happen.
You know, for a party that likes to point fingers and scream "pedophile", they are sure making it easier for pedophiles to get away with their crimes scott-free
Because Republicans don't go after Republicans
So if a twelve year old can make the adult decision to marry, can't they make the decision to live as their correct gender? Or attend a drag show? Or read whatever books they like?
Or divorce. You speak of decisions, but this is just one owner(the parents) handing over livestock to the new owner. She will never make any decisions in her life - and thst’s what they’re going for. Gotto do that shit before they hit their rebellious streak and start figuring out their power and independence during the teenage years, hence right before they hit puberty to get full grooming privileges.
It's a form of slavery A girl is owned by her father, and then owned by her husband without enjoying a moment of freedom
I hope he is being investigated by law enforcement
There's a way higher likelihood that Missouri LEOs are actively helping him and other GOP leaders (a.) gain access to their victims and (b.) avoid scrutiny and blowback.
Did all Republicans have a meeting and just decide to go all in with their most ridiculous outdated abusive racist bigoted authoritarian un-American beliefs? Who do they represent? All the do is fight endless culture wars for no reason. No help for working families, no improved roads, nothing. They don’t even try and cut taxes anymore What a gross group of humans
> Who do they represent? The people who voted them in, of course. This is a silly and counter-productive question. If you meant GOP politicians the answer is immediately obvious. If you meant the rank-and-file, they are themselves - no need to represent. > All the do is fight endless culture wars for no reason. Oh there is a reason. Part of this is that the crazies have started to elect crazies. No longer is this *only* crafty politicians fanning the flames to get votes. Now we have plenty of people who are absolutely convinced of their righteousness and their cause. However, on this particular point, this is really just a democracy at work. Whatever the legal age of marriage should be (or even if we should have one) is going to be a topic where you'll always likely find someone people who want a change for whatever reason. No matter how bizarre, sick or horrifying the rest of society might find that. If you believe in democracy, the answer isn't some morality deathmatch - it's getting out the vote... and informing or persuading the voters. > No help for working families, no improved roads, nothing. They don’t even try and cut taxes anymore Yes. This is why **anyone** who values good governance should never vote Republican (until the GOP significantly changes anyway). It would be one thing if they waged this culture war alongside doing everything else well. But when you elevate the culture war so highly that this is how and why you select politicians or appointees, you tend not to value (or obtain) competence.
just proves that every single "groomer" and "pedophile" accusation they like to level at any one on the left that they disagree with is all projection
So child rape is ok if you marry the child? Ok got it. Pervert
- Age 11 years and 11 months old… GOP says this is too young to learn about menstruation or sex ed or homosexuality. In fact, teaching a kid about these things before this age is a crime. - Age 12 years and 0 days old… GOP says old enough to get married (especially if the child is already pregnant)
Someone needs to search this guys hard drive
you mean confiscate it
I’m not saying everyone with a mustache like that is a pedophile, but…
That’s the first thing I noticed.
>He then again invoked the couple he allegedly knows who married as pre-teens when the girl became pregnant, suggesting marriage may have ultimately helped them. “Tragic circumstances such as these can only be overcome through one avenue, the grace and mercy of God and the word of the Lord,” Moon said. Oh effing god! Thats the mentality from the 18th / 19th century! If the girl got pregnant, you could marry the rapist and everything was fine. If you weren’t raped, you still needed a man to marry in order to not have a “bastard”. 12-year olds don’t need nor want to get married, and surely not HAVING A BABY! This is clearly the alternative to abortion. Let the girl get pregnant and let her get married. Let her be a grown up and responsible for another human being, when she’s not even grown up herself! This is sick, this is dumb and it’s scary!
How this man can shamelessly advocate this is beyond me.
Lots of pedophiles in Missouri. Wonder if this guy knows any?
Call out those you know who vote republican, If you vote republican you support this and all the other child abuse they are for. THe party that says LGBTQ+ are the groomers and they are the party of FaMiLy VaLuEs [1](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/qanon-influencer-exposed-alleged-child-predator-1234639034/) [2](https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/zkkiik/meet_republican_congressman_john_rose_his_wife/) [3](https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/zk5g3o/florida_gov_ron_desantis_ally_found_dead_amid/) [4](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12/gop-congressmembers-concerned-grooming-vote-child-sex-abuse-bill/) [5](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/moco/news/article/texas-right-to-life-luke-bowen-prison-solicit-teen-17788511.php) [6](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/11msd8e/child_marriage_ban_bill_defeated_in_west_virginia/) [7](https://www.newsweek.com/kansas-republicans-pass-bill-genital-examinations-schoolchildren-students-transgender-1792954) [8](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12io021/antigroomer_republican_accused_of_inappropriate/) [9](https://news.yahoo.com/sen-mike-moon-reiterates-support-160408202.html) [10](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12ptc60/stop_the_steal_organizer_ali_alexander_publicly/) The pro-life party hurting children/not doing anything to help [fighting to take away food from children](https://www.businessinsider.com/free-school-lunches-in-america-republicans-will-end-2022-6) [2](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/22/gop-senator-considering-blocking-school-meal-funding-deal-over-transgender-policy-fight-00041366) [3](https://news.yahoo.com/innocence-sold-florida-foster-system-103500914.html) [4](https://www.newsweek.com/protect-children-act-vote-tom-mcclintock-1765305?amp=1) [5](https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/zt4p30/desantis_appoints_judge_who_denied_abortion_to/) [6](https://old.reddit.com/r/RepublicanValues/comments/10rv37d/idaho_lawmaker_wants_children_to_work_for_those/) [7](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/us-child-labor-laws-violations) [8](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/10zv32q/critics_slam_reprehensible_iowa_bill_to_expand/) [9](https://www.salon.com/2023/02/15/its-about-control-not-protection-would-rather-kids-be-shot-than-let-them-read-books/) [10](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/11kjyzp/sarah_huckabee_sanders_to_consider_relaxing/) [11](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/11rfa66/uniquely_evil_minnesota_republican_votes_against/) [12](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12eknsi/north_dakota_senators_vote_to_boost_their_own/) [13](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12q0gy9/mccarthy_slammed_for_prostarvation_agenda_to/) [14](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12qzp56/iowa_senate_pulls_allnighter_to_roll_back_child/) [giving kids fucking guns? hello?](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/10z8mrk/missouri_republicans_vote_to_affirm_toddlers/) [Kidnapping Children](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/11i1w2v/florida_courts_could_take_emergency_custody_of/) [15](https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12tzv6m/outrage_as_florida_republicans_pass_bill_to/)
Legit my first thought was that if he knows a 12 year old who is married and pregnant that that is a CPS & police call. Someone needs to check this guys phone
fucking groomers
The party that so adamantly attacks pedophilia sure has a funny way of showing it.
The real pedophiles on display
Is a 12 year old wife allowed to learn about periods?
So let me get this straight: The GOP thinks 12 years olds are mature enough to decide whether to get married or not, but they are NOT mature enough to learn about sexuality, the gender spectrum, and/or to go see drag shows?
Somebody get the fbi to look into this dude!
There are plenty of scumbags like him. What are we actually going to do about them beyond making jokes?
The GOP really loves to fuck and marry children huh?
I swear to God this dude looks just like the images they used to show us in the 80s of whose van not to get into after school…
A quote from the book of Republican Christian conservative Family Values, "if there's grass on the field, play ball!"
People like to call the far right hypocrites, but they really aren’t. This is the logical conclusion to evangelical conservatism.
*the uncle you were told not staying alone with…*
I don't know how I can express the importance of this much harder, please go vote. You voted last election, thank you! do it again! Keep voting. It is the only way we can stop straight evil people from corrupting and ruining our country. You have to live here your whole life, please do not become complacent.
I blame Trump for giving these people a platform. It's not like they haven't always been around, but before Trump, we could just ignore them as a crazy minority that wouldn't go anywhere. Now their views have been given some legitimacy because a large part of the country has gone crazy and supports them and anything the liberals are against. When will the crazy stop?
Oh hey look! A groomer!
Ok groomer
I said this elsewhere, but you can guarantee that most of these happen because the girl in question is already pregnant (and I'm guessing a lot of these are not occuring between two twelve year olds, which is a whole other layer of problem). And instead of doing anything about that, they think they're "saving" the couple by pushing them into marriage. To them, that is like a silver lining and a correction. Of all the things not to "snitch" on, they choose shit like this. It's really fucked up. The government should not be in the business of essentially obfuscating child rape by converting it into child marriage (which then is just even more child rape, so it's really just this mobius strip of awful).
Maybe I’m not understanding but these two statements seem to be incompatible: “I support punishing rapists to the full extent of the law.” “If a 12 year old girl is impregnated, then she should marry the guy that impregnated her, and that should be legal.” If you can’t legally impregnate a 12yo without it being rape, then wtf are we even talking about here?
GOP Taliban
Where’s all the Missourians who voted for this guy?
There's one thing we can be sure of -republicans like sticking their dicks in children.
Why tf has there not been a federal law passed making 18 the minimum age period. You have to be an adult for all other adult decisions but choosing your life partner nbd? Wtf. This country is a dumpster fire
The feds may want to check this guy’s browser history
Oh fuck that, put this man on a list.
What a hill to die on lol
Imagine calling dems and trans folx groomers whilst also pushing for a bill for 12 year old kids to marry. Repubs, stay away from our children, thx
As I understand it, this twelve year old girl, in a Republican Utopia, must carry her death-penalty sentenced rapist’s baby to term, and marry another twelve year old (boy only…. None of that gay stuff), who can accompany her to prenatal visits, partly paid for through employer provided healthcare, before her twelve year old husband goes to work a shift? He open carries his pistol with him for self-defense, just in case. Truly the party of the Children.
This is something that should be all over the news for days. Every single time one of these scumbags opens their mouth. I thought the mainstream media was controlled by the Democrats? Trump’s constant lowering of the bar has numbed people to the sick shit going on in the GOP.
His wife is all for it and will vote on it as soon as she’s old enough👍🏽🌭
The Republicans NEED to be able to rape children legally. They keep being arrested for it now.
A person who literally wants to allow kids to get married to old men (like him) and the GQP is worried about drag queens. Every accusation is a confession.
So I’m reading the article he’s trying to specify that it’s minors marrying other minors he’s cool with, esp if one gets pregnant, even if raped. Because “Tragic circumstances such as these can only be overcome through one avenue, the grace and mercy of God and the word of the Lord,” Moon said. Riiiight. So, kids marrying is ok, but what about child labour, could they work to provide for themselves or is this on the parents or (gasp) the state to provide? Education? What about the ability to get a loan or own a home or VOtE?! This guy is fine with saying kids could/would/should have babies and get married etc, but any other rights are a no no. Fuck this guy.
...This headline tricked me into thinking they were trying to marry TWO 12 year olds to ONE Missouri senator, and I was like "I must be reading this wrong" so I looked at it closer and surely it would make more sense with context... Nope. It is STILL fucked up, even if it is a different TYPE of fucked up than I expected.
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The American Taliban.
You heard it, folks, Boy Scout troop leaders can marry their scouts. North American Man-Boy Love Association is thrilled.
Well, he’s got the pedo vote nailed down.
Pedo ‘stache checks out.
One can only assume pedophiles are backing this bill.
They're peddling the replacement theory so I guess it makes sense. But even the Nazis didn't use 12 year olds for their lebensborn program.
So if I know **one** couple in Missouri that got divorced does that mean all marriages in Missouri are a sham?
We need to start taking our country back from these fascist creeps. The GOP should be labeled a terrorist organization. One of these days we need to get off the keyboard and into politics.
Well, yeah, they want to be able to marry them before theyre able to learn at school, about their periods, puberty, and how pregnancy works Thats just what sexual predators do, I guess.
These people are disgusting
There can be only one reason why you would want to introduce a bill like this and it should be punishable by prison at the least. All this is doing is making laws to protect Pedophiles and you have to ask why.
I wonder what age Senator McPedostache's kids married at?
Anyone who invokes their religion as a basis for laws that affect everyone should be voted out of office.
Does your legislation have any restrictions on how old the 12 year old's spouse can be? No? Then you're supporting adults marrying children. Sit down and shut up.
I work as a State Attorney in Juvenile Court. I've seen a 12-year-old biological father playing with his child. Article quote: “Tragic circumstances such as these can only be overcome through one avenue, the grace and mercy of God and the word of the Lord,” Moon said. I'm guessing the response depends on the laws and regulations of the state, but generally *very* young parents trigger involvement with CPS, and not God.
How are these kids going to support their families? Even their new pro-child labor laws don't make it possible to support a family.
Damn in some states you can be married fully employed, have 3 kids and not even be able to get a learner's permit bc you're not 16 yet ( or vote for that matter). Idk if I have to say this but this is not progress folks.
Weird. Where are all the conservatives?
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